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Amy Ahasic, MD, MPH, FCCP

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Biography

Amy M. Ahasic, MD, MPH, has been a member of the Pulmonary and Critical Care faculty since 2010. In outpatient practice, Dr. Ahasic has specialized in occupational lung disease, bronchiectasis, and general pulmonary disease. She currently precepts our PCCSM fellows in their continuity clinic. In the inpatient setting, she specializes in adult critical care including acute lung injury and sepsis. Dr. Ahasic is board-certified in occupational and environmental medicine, pulmonary medicine, and critical care medicine.

Dr. Ahasic earned her undergraduate degree from Yale University with a major in the History of Science and Medicine. She received her MD from the Yale School of Medicine. Dr. Ahasic completed both an internship and residency in internal medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital where she was also a chief resident. She went on to complete training in occupational and environmental medicine at the Harvard School of Public Health where she also received her Masters in Public Health. Dr. Ahasic completed fellowship training in pulmonary and critical care medicine in the Harvard Combined Fellowship Program, training at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Dr. Ahasic’s clinical research focuses on obesity in critically ill patients. She has received research awards from the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the Massachusetts Thoracic Society, and the Respiratory Disease Young Investigators’ Forum. Dr. Ahasic is currently funded by the American Heart Association to study metabolic and obesity-related pathways in acute lung injury, and by the Yale Claude D. Pepper Older Americans Independence Center to study the relationship between obesity and adipose dysfunction, and the development of delirium in the ICU.

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Education & Training

Fellow
Harvard Combined Program (MGH, BWH, and BIDMC) (2010)
Fellow
Harvard School of Public Health (2006)
MPH
Harvard School of Public Health (2005)
Chief Residency
Yale-New Haven Hospital (2004)
Internship and Residency
Yale-New Haven Hospital (2003)
MD
Yale University School of Medicine (2000)
BA
Yale University (1996)

Research

Overview

My research interest centers around obesity and metabolic pathways in critical illness. Because of their impact on cardiac and pulmonary function, such pathways may affect risk and prognosis in critical illness. I focus on acute lung injury (ALI)/acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and sepsis as common critical illness with systemic physiologic derangements and high morbidity and mortality. The relationship between obesity and ARDS is of particular interest. My current American Heart Association grant focuses on patient-oriented research of both phenotypic and genotypic markers relevant to metabolic pathways, including insulin-like growth factor (IGF) and adipokines, in acute lung injury.

I am also interested in the aging ICU population, and their functional and cognitive outcomes after critical illness. This extends to the cognitive-metabolic connection linking various metabolic phenomena such as obesity and insulin resistance to cognitive impairment and delirium, particularly in older adults. Delirium in the ICU is a common phenomenon for which age is a major risk factor, and its occurrence has significant impacts on morbidity and mortality.

Yale MICU Biorepository project: Principal Investigator on this initiative to collect clinical data and biologic specimens from a broad range of critically ill patients. We have enrolled approximately 700 patients to date.

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Acute Lung Injury; Aging; Critical Care; Delirium; Environmental Medicine; Epidemiology; Obesity; Occupational Medicine; Pulmonary Medicine; Respiratory Distress Syndrome; Sepsis

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